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Chrome’s sync has a downside. It can apparently share malware across platforms. Because of it, I spent an evening removing a browser hijacker that was installed on a Windows 7 virtual machine on my wife’s MacBook Pro – and then having to dislodge it from the OS X host as well. …

ohn Henry Skillern, 41, was nabbed after Google tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that child porn had been spotted in his Gmail account. It turns out Google has algorithms that search for illicit images uploaded to its email service.

Google has finally has a beta release of 64-bit Chrome for Windows 7 and 8.x. Yes, it’s been available for a while in the Developer and Canary test channels, but few mainstream users tread that rocky ground. And while beta software isn’t complete finished, it’s stable enough for most users to try. …

When it first went on sale just over a year ago, one of Google’s Chromebook Pixel’s selling points was two years of free – but limited to 100 megabytes a month – access to Verizon’s LTE network. But now, those who forked over those big bucks have discovered that two years have been downsized to one. …

Google has unveiled what a car that doesn’t require a driver might actually look like. The company on Tuesday took the wraps off a prototype driverless car designed to work without human intervention. In fact, you couldn’t drive it if you wanted to: It has no steering wheel, accelerator pedal, brake or side mirrors. …